November 10, Paris, France.

There was still an hour before the start of the game, Tang Xiaotang sat in the lounge backstage, calmly drinking ice Coke, facing the pre-game interview with the media.

To be honest, even a talented player like her must still be nervous when facing the stage of the World Finals, so she has been eating explosive cookies since early in the morning to ensure that her state is always highly calm and there will be no messy omissions.

When the media's pre-game interview was almost over, she and Chen Zilan received a WeChat video call request from Tang Heng and Gu Wanqin - they sat next to Cabbage and Cabbage Daddy, and refueled Tang Xiaotang and Chen Zilan together, and the heads of the four of them were put together in the mobile phone camera, which looked quite warm, and even the fierce and bald head of Dad Tang Heng and the reflection of the refraction were much softer.

Among them, Gu Wanqin's blessing is the most gentle, it is to hope that the two of them will not be nervous, no matter what the result is, she will always wait for them to come back at home; The most concise of the sauce, rushed to the end, but she had been chatting with the two for a long time on the night after the semi-finals, so she really didn't have much to say; Yang Jianshu, the father of the vegetable sauce, looked excited, looked like a star chaser, and shouted that he wanted to talk about a big investment with them when the game was over. In the end, it was Tang Heng, who said with a tender face that Dongbao Hongbao's father loves you, but he was disgusted by Tang Xiaotang and Chen Zilan for a long time with kimo (disgusting) eyes - people who are not confused about their age, their hair is gone, and they still learn the Internet language of young people, so it's not a shame.

Immediately after, ending the communication, as an ADHD patient, Tang Xiaosugar was idle for a while, seeing that the opening ceremony was still more than half an hour, he wandered to the FPX base with nothing to do, and had a wave of intimate exchanges with the FPX team members - Brother Gongzi is not very good at English, and Chinese is also more construction site, but his body language is very rich, and Tang Xiaosugar has been compared for a long time, and he actually has a feeling of a best friend; The big onmyoji Xiaotian is actually the most shy one, and when he saw her, he couldn't say anything, so he added a QQ friend and hid in the corner; Brother Coin and War Horse are the most talkative, and they chatted with Tang Xiaotang for a long time, but in fact, they were secretly talking to each other, and finally set a bunch of fake information about each other, and they both felt that they were very witty; As for Lin Weixiang and Liu Qingsong, they are the calmest, but after Xiaotian added Tang Xiaotang QQ, they also immediately came over at a speed of 100 meters to add a wave of friends, and immediately left with a calm face after adding friends, making it difficult not to suspect that the calmness of these two people was all pretended.

Finally, the time is almost up, the arena is going to perform the opening ceremony, and the players should also take the stage, Tang Xiaotang returned to the lounge in advance, and his teammates took their places in the backstage, and finally waited for the shouts of the host to be heard, and everyone took the stage together to bear the cheers and shouts of the audience - this time the home audience is still mostly European, and neither TL nor FPX has a home field advantage, so the cheers still take care of the face of the players on both sides, and it looks evenly divided.

Of course, when reading Tang Xiaotang's ID, the cheers were undoubtedly the loudest, followed by Chen Zilan - the honors that the two of them won this year, there are too many famous scenes of operation, and at the same time, they also have the identity of a rookie player who debuted in the first year, the identity of the only two female professional players who entered the world competition, excess appearance and other special halos, it can be said that the number of fans that the two of them have attracted around the world in this year is already the sum of the fans attracted by other veterans for many years. In terms of popularity, even the living fossil players in the team have to look up to the big brothers.

Now, they are only one step away from creating an unprecedented rookie legend, and if they win this inevitable championship trophy, they will be the strongest newcomers in the history of League of Legends esports, second only to Faker and Bengi's three world champions in terms of legend.

This was their final and least difficult step, and when G2 and SKT were taken in turn, an FPX who had stumbled at Worlds didn't look like they could put any pressure on them at all.

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At the end of the opening ceremony, the players took their seats, and the first game entered the BP session.

"Let's fight the way we originally thought first." Tang Xiaotang looked at his teammates beside him, his little face serious.

She doesn't have a countermeasure to FPX, she can only rely on her own exploration, but you can't have too high expectations before the actual battle, so after she discussed it with Coach Cain in the first game, she felt that it was better to take the previous style of play of TL, that is, to play Nakano linkage with the jujube combination as the absolute core, and FPX to fight with the same likes Nakano linkage but play more team.

Of course, the same is Nakano linkage, TL's Nakano linkage and FPX are completely different styles.

TL's Nakano linkage is more like what IG fans dream of, Ning Wang doesn't squat, but squats instead, first liberates rookie, and then uses rookie as the core to do things on other roads, of course, the reckless style of playing less and more, high risk and high return has not changed, if you have to say it, it is more like a gambler, because of the relationship between excellent gambling skills, and he has not turned over a car yet.

And FPX's midfield linkage is different, they are currently the most team linkage method, if TL is to play more without hesitation, then FPX prefers to bully more and less, at least the number of equals, which is why Liu Qingsong has the highest evaluation in FPX, but O Bao is often scolded in the LCS division The key - when FPX fights, Liu Qingsong can often unconsciously support the scene, forming more fights and fewer fights, and olleh will only shout on the lower road such as "Oh, miss on the other side of the groove, be careful yourself." "Alas, I said that the other side missed, why were you still arrested" or something.

"So nervous? Take it easy, this puts me C, winter dates you can rest. Seeing Tang Xiaotang's solemn face, the senior brother said with a smile, he must be very nervous at this time, but he was afraid that his teammates would be too nervous, so he wanted to ease the atmosphere.

"You're talking about Ang." Tang Xiaotang squinted and said, "What if you don't C?" How do you apologize? ”

"Ah, this ......" Senior Brother didn't know how to answer for a while, Sister Zaozi is in C on weekdays, this one wants C, first of all, you have to grab the MVP from Sister Zaozi, it's not easy, right? What's more, Chen Zilan's MVP probability is also very high, which makes it even more difficult to grab.

But fortunately, BP started, and they immediately restrained their thoughts and stopped chatting.

This TL was not very lucky, it didn't get the priority to pick the side during the draw, and FPX took the blue side - the BP preparation for the final was very crucial, which also led to the red side being unpopular, and stabilizing a ban position of Panson, which was not comfortable for any team's coaching staff.

Immediately afterwards, the first three hands that came up, FPX chose to ban Kaisha, who played very hot as the big brother, plus the two fixed ban positions of Spider and Akali - this is the most embarrassing part of FPX, Xiaotian almost doesn't play spiders recently, and he doesn't dare to put this signature hero to Chen Zilan, not to mention Akali, there is no one in the FPX team who can play Akali, and Akali is a hard hand per capita.

And TL banned Pan Sen first, and the second and third hands of the follow-up banned Kasumi and Rambo respectively - Kasumi and Kaisha were put together banned, and Kasha on the opposite side was banned, and Kasumi definitely couldn't be put either, and Rambo was because in the first game of FPX vs. IG, Rambo of the poison coin performed too well, like a killer move, a big move directly destroyed the entire IG, just in case, directly pressed it down.

In the end, the intrigue of the two rounds of BP ended, and the lineups of the two sides were also determined.

The blue FPX chose the top laner captain, the jungler Kiana, the mid laner Titan, and the bottom lane wheel mom + hammerstone.

On the red side, TL chooses the top laner Angel, the jungler Rexey, the mid laner Sword Demon, and the bottom lane Verus + Tam.

After a moment of game loading, accompanied by the nervous heartbeat of the audience, the first game of FPX and TL in the finals finally began.